At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Google executive Sundar Pichai confirmed that the world's most popular smartphone operating system is about to get integrated mobile payments capabilities.

Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier, said it has seen a "sea change" in demand for cyber security services in critical infrastructure areas such as energy, oil and gas, and financial institutions over the past 18 months.

Hewlett-Packard Co said it would buy WiFi network gear maker Aruba Networks Inc for about US$2.7bil (RM9.8bil), the biggest deal for the world's No 2 PC maker since its botched acquisition of Britain's Autonomy Plc in 2011.

The head of Sony Mobile told French daily newspaper Le Figaro that the division is not being sold, only two weeks after Sony Corp chief executive Kazuo Hirai said he would not rule out considering an exit strategy.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen's office said it has launched an investigation into Lenovo Group Ltd's sales of laptops preloaded with Superfish software, which the US government last month warned made users vulnerable to cyberattacks.

President Barack Obama sharply criticised China's plans for new rules on US tech companies, urging Beijing to change the policy if it wants to do business with the United States and saying he had raised it with President Xi Jinping.

Onetime highflying tech executive Ray Lane testified during a sex discrimination trial involving his former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, that he made a mistake in judgement involving the harassment of a female venture capitalist at the firm, and that he feared for the woman's safety.